Interdisciplinary Studies or Whatever, Class 9, Friday, Period 1

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When the students arrived, they'd find a advanced chemistry textbook, pencil, and paper lying on each desk. Squall had a book, too. At the front of the room was what looked to be a papier-mâché volcano.

"Today, class," he said, as he tossed out the sign-in clipboard, "we're going to learn chemistry."


"Chemistry is what happens when you mix chemicals," Squall began. He then started flipping through the textbook and summarizing bits and pieces here and there. It was slipshod and haphazard, but it'd at least give the students some idea of what chemistry was about. Maybe. Possibly. Most of the time it sounded like Squall didn't really know what he was talking about.

When he got to the bit about the periodic table of the elements, he ripped the page with the diagram out of the book and taped it to the chalkboard. "That's important."

He went through every chapter of the book, giving a few sentences of explanation out of each. "And there you have it," he finished. "Chemistry." Then he poured some baking soda and vinegar into the paper volcano and watched as foam bubbled out and spilled onto the floor. "See? Nothing to it. Any questions?"

"Now, I want you to turn to page [handwavey] and answer questions 1, 3, 7, 11, 15, and 23. You may work in groups, if you'd like."


[Wait for OCD OCD up. Have fun!]

Comments

Sign In

[whatever-sucks.livejournal.com]

Whatever. You know the drill.

Re: Sign In

[intraspective]

Yamanaka Ino

Re: Sign In

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Cassandra Cain

Re: Sign In

[the_merriest]

Rikku

During the Lecture

[whatever-sucks.livejournal.com]

Take notes, sleep, flip through your own copy of the textbook -- whatever.

Re: During the Lecture

[intraspective]

Ino very quickly gave up taking notes in favor of looking through the textbook and boggling over the amount of information that was being skipped over.

Re: During the Lecture

[the_merriest]

Chemistry! This was awesome. This was totally a class she'd meant to request and forgotten. This was so great.

He was going kind of fast. That stuff must not be too important. Right?

Any questions?

[whatever-sucks.livejournal.com]

Whyever would there be questions? Squall's such a good teacher.

Work in groups to answer the questions

[whatever-sucks.livejournal.com]

Squall has, only partly by chance, chosen to make you balance (http://www.ehow.com/how_2106431_balance-redox-reactions.html) redox equations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxidation-reduction). These are just about the single most difficult part of high school chemistry. And you've had little to no information on how to go about it. Good luck!

Re: Work in groups to answer the questions

[the_merriest]

Okay. This shouldn't be too bad. The little numbers had charges and you had to make them balance out. It was a math thing. Most science-y stuff was.

Better pick a letter to start with. Hmmm. Rikku decided to go with O, for oxygen. It was important and all that stuff!

Ten minutes later she threw her pencil down and shoved her desk, hard. "You're insane!" she announced. "This is never gonna balance! It keeps going up and up and up and ... this is stupid!"

Re: Work in groups to answer the questions

[whatever-sucks.livejournal.com]

"You must be doing it wrong," Squall answered with a shrug. "Which problem are you on?"

Re: Work in groups to answer the questions

[the_merriest]

"Number three," she said, still glaring. "I started with 2 Os and I'm up to 18 and it just keeps going up. This is ridiculous."

Re: Work in groups to answer the questions

[ashockingbitch]

At one point Jenny had sworn she would not use the radiotelepathy uplink in her head to cheat in class, as a matter of principle. She was seriously reconsidering that decision now. In fact, the only thing stopping her was that the Engineer was the only member of the Authority who'd even have a clue about this, and Angie wouldn't help Jenny cheat. Woe.

So instead, you got Jenny toiling laboriously over a bunch of numbers and thinking about weeping.

Re: Work in groups to answer the questions

[whatever-sucks.livejournal.com]

"It's not THAT bad, is it?"

Re: Work in groups to answer the questions

[ashockingbitch]

"Yes," Jenny said bluntly.

Re: Work in groups to answer the questions

[not_in_the_book]

Ronan looked at the questions for a moment, and then got to work.

Fifteen minutes later, he was finished, and sat there smugly patiently waiting for others to complete their work.

Re: Work in groups to answer the questions

[whatever-sucks.livejournal.com]

Squall glared at him. "Well, aren't YOU smart?"

Re: Work in groups to answer the questions

[not_in_the_book]

Ronan shrugged. "I have to do this kind of stuff in my head while under attack from hostile forces," he said. "So I took my time."

One of these days, he'd learn not to needle Squall. This was not that day.

Re: Work in groups to answer the questions

[ashockingbitch]

"I think I hate you," Jenny informed him.

Re: Work in groups to answer the questions

[grenfelzer.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, having a geek for a little brother pays off. Like when you're struggling with a certain concept in chemistry class, and the little dork finds the time to explain it to you in a way that actually makes *sense*.

Of course, as soon as that unit was over with she hadn't *touched* the subject again till now, so there's still a lot of frustrated scribbling as she tries to remember what Kit had taught her.

Bitch to the TA

[whatever-sucks.livejournal.com]

After she pings in or whatever.

Re: Bitch to the TA

[ashockingbitch]

Jenny was here, looking slightly stunned from the chemistry.

Be annoying

[whatever-sucks.livejournal.com]

Yell at Squall after class.

OOC

[whatever-sucks.livejournal.com]

Let's all pretend we have some clue what's going on.

Re: OOC

[the_merriest]

Redox equations. You bastard.

*will have nightmares involving the words "aqueous solution"*